wire: october 2013

On the cover: Matana Roberts: Daniel Spicer speaks to Chicago-born saxophonist Matana Roberts about the latest instalment of Coin Coin, her sprawling series of releases on Constellation Records that channel a long tradition of radical African-American music and literature as well as delving deep into her own family's history and folklore, and finds a musician navigating the borders between jazz, avant-rock, poetry and performance. Inside the issue: The Necks; Charles Cohen; Shalabi Effect's Sam Shalabi; Invisible Jukebox Nozinja/Shangaan Electro; Cross Platform Hannah Sawtell.